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- смотреть! Russian War Tubas!
The photo of Japanese war tubas I posted last month has proven very popular. A Spanish-language British blog (?) linked to the War Tubas in a post on Soviet anti-zeppelin countermeasures use of barrage balloons in World War II against aerial bombings. [My Spanish sucks, yo – YH] This looks like a sweet post, I [...]
- Anon analysis
On the 15th of March, Anonymous took to the streets again in its War on Scientology. See the call to arms here. This is the second real life protest for Project Chanology. The date was symbolic: the 15th is known as the Ides of March, when Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC. The next [...]
- 150 million books, 1 search engine
Thanks to Joe for sending along this link.
Check out this site: Bookfinder.com. This site lets you search over 150 million books for sale whether it be rare, out-of-print, obscure, or a textbooks, and find either original sellers in your neighborhood and the cheapest seller around. Although advocates have long spoken about the [...]
- Free Tibet! Free the media!
Stuart Brand is credited with saying Information wants to be free. Today we are seeing the internet work its magic in Tibet. Despite the fact that China is blocking YouTube, CNN and the BBC images and videos from the riots in Tibet are still seeping out to the web.
This is all breaking so I don’t [...]
- Hate in the USA
The Southern Poverty Law Center says that hate groups in the US have surged to 888 in 2007, up from 602 in 2000.
See who and where they are. All hate groups profiled are race-based. Diversity Matters notes that much of the vitriol is directed at Latinos. I thought there would be more religion-based hate in [...]
- Like Blind Moles…
Sake-Drenched Postcards has a great account on clashes between far left and far right protestors at Yasukuni Shrine. With photos! Check it out here.
- Coming Anarchy circa 2008: Exhibit A
Via Subadai come a terrifying look at the current state of Kenya’s tribal warfare. Only a year ago promoted as a stable democracy in volatile Africa that made it a darling of Washington and other donors and investors, since allegations of election rigging in December there has been ongoing tribal warfare that has not [...]
- Rising Sun?
Anyone know where this flag is from? No cheating!
Hint: contrary to what some may expect, it is neither a current nor historical flag of Japan, which has long had the rays of the sun on the flags of the imperial military and modern self-defense forces, but never on the national flag, unlike the nation-state [...]
- Remember the Philippines!
According to late February polling conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, 53 percent of Americans — a slim majority — now believe “the U.S. will ultimately succeed in achieving its goals” in Iraq. That figure is up from 42 percent in September 2007.
The percentage of those who believe the [...]
